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  • Rytas Vilgalys

  • Duke Herbarium
  • 354 Bio Sci Building
  • Campus Box 90338
  • Phone: (919) 660-7361, (919) 660-7362
  • Fax: (919) 660-7293
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  • Curriculum Vitae

  • Specialties

    • Fungi

  • Research Summary

    Phylogenetic systematics and molecular evolution in fungi

  • Education

      • PhD,
      • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
      • 1985
      • MS Botany,
      • Virginia Tech,
      • 1982
      • BA Botany,
      • State University of New York College at Geneseo,
      • 1978

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • see cv,
      • December, 2007
      • New York State Regents Scholarship,
      • 1975-1978
      • AAAS Fellow,
      • 0 2002
      • Mid-Career Fellowship,
      • Mycological Society of America,
      • 0 2002
      • Alexopolous Award,
      • Mycological Society of America,
      • 0 1995
      • Outstanding dissertation award,
      • College of Arts and Sciences, Virginia Tech,
      • 0 1986
      • Gertrude S. Burlingham Fellowship,
      • New York Botanical Garden,
      • 0 1983

  • Recent Publications

      • Henkel TW, Husbands D, Bonito GM, Vilgalys R, Smith ME.
      • (2012).
      • New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence.
      • Mycologia
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      • in press
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      Publication Description

      . (2013). Mycologia. In Press.

      • Hersh, M., James Clark, Rytas Vilgalys.
      • (2012).
      • Evaluating the impacts of multiple generalist fungal pathogens on temperate tree seedling survival..
      • Ecology
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      • 93
      • ,
      • 511–520.
      Publication Description

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      • Bonito, Gregory, Matthew E. Smith, Michael Nowak, Rosanne A. Healy, Gonzalo Guevara, ,Efren Cázares, Akihiko Kinoshita, Eduardo R. Nouhra, Laura S. Domínguez, Leho Tedersoo, Claude Murat, Yun Wang, Baldomero, Arroyo Moreno, Donald H. Pfister, Kazuhide Nara, Alessandra Zambonelli, James M. Trappe, Rytas Vilgalys.
      • (2012).
      • Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified Southern hemisphere sister lineage.
      • PLOS ONE (in press)
      • .
      Publication Description

      2. Bonito, Gregory, Matthew E. Smith, Michael Nowak, Rosanne A. Healy, Gonzalo Guevara, ,Efren Cázares, Akihiko Kinoshita, Eduardo R. Nouhra, Laura S. Domínguez, Leho Tedersoo, Claude Murat, Yun Wang, Baldomero, Arroyo Moreno, Donald H. Pfister, Kazuhide Nara, Alessandra Zambonelli, James M. Trappe, Rytas Vilgalys. Historical biogeography and diversification of truffles in the Tuberaceae and their newly identified Southern hemisphere sister lineage, PLOS ONE in press

      • Husbands, Dillon R., Terry W. Henkel, Gregory Bonito, Rytas Vilgalys, and Matthew E. Smith.
      • (2012).
      • New species of Xerocomus (Boletales) from the Guiana Shield, with notes on their mycorrhizal status and fruiting occurrence.
      • Mycologia
      • .
      Publication Description

      13.. . 2012. .

      • Porter, T. M., M. Rodriguez, B. Robbertse, R. Yoder, P. M. Letcher, J. E. Longcore, J. W. Spatafora, and R. Vilgalys.
      • (2012).
      • Chytrid transcriptome pyrosequencing: application to phylogenetic systematics.
      • submitted to Mol. Phylog. Evol.
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  • Postdoctoral Students

    • Jessie Uehling
      • 2012 - present
    • Soledad Benitez-Ponce
      • 2011-present
      • Soledad is working with Jim Clark and our lab on ecology of forest pathogens.
    • Brantlee Richter
      • 2010-2011
      • Brantlee worked with myself and Jim Clark on forest seedling pathology. Last February, she took a position as lecturer in the Dept. of Plant Pathology, Univ. of Florida. Good luck Brantlee!
    • Matthew Smith
      • 2009-2011
      • Matt recently landed a tenure track position as mycologist at the Univ. of Florida. Congratulations, Dr. Smith. This is also the son of a bitch who named a new lichen species after me!.
    • Teresa Porter
      • 2008 - 2010
      • Teri is the current postdoc on our NSF Tree of Life project. Her specialty areas include current approaches to study of fungal biodiversity, including molecular phylogenetics, and environmental genomics.
    • Andrii Grygansky
      • 2008-present
      • Andrii, a visiting scientist from the Ukraine, is investigating the phylogeny and mating biology of several diverse basal fungal lineages once known as Zygomycetes, including the human pathogen Rhizopus, as well as insect-pathogens belonging to the family Entomopthorales. Andrii is also contributing data to our NSF Fungal Tree of Life Project.
    • Timothy James
      • 2003 - 2006
      • current: Assistant Professor, Univ. Michigan
    • Annette Golonka
      • 2002 - 2006
      • current: Asst. Professor, Univ. So. Carolina at Lancaster
    • Valerie Hofstetter
      • 2002 - 2006
    • Ana Litvintseva
      • 2001 - 2006
      • Current: assistant research professor in the Dept. of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center
    • Austin Ganley
      • 2000 - 2002
      • current: Research Scientist, National Institute for Basic Biology, Aichi, Japan
    • Robert Marra
      • 2000 - 2003
      • current position: Research Scientist, The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, CT
    • Ursula Peintner
      • 1999 - 2001
      • current position: Assistant Professor, Institute for Microbiology, Innsbruck
    • Anja Forche
      • 1998 - 2000
      • current: postdoctoral associate, Dept. of Biology, Univ. Minnesota
    • James Johnson
      • 1997 - 2000
      • current: Assoc. Professor, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
    • Jianping Xu
      • 1996 - 2000
      • current position: Assistant Professor, McMaster, Univ., Hamilton, Ontario
    • Jean-Marc Moncalvo
      • 1995 - 2002
      • current: Associate Curator, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
    • Wendy Untereiner
      • 1995 - 1996
      • current position: assoc. professor, Dept. of Biology, Univ. Manitoba
    • Joseph Spatafora
      • 1992 - 1994
      • current position: Professor, Dept. of Plant Biology, Oregon State Univ
    • Marc Cubeta
      • 1992 - 1994
      • current position: assoc. prof., Dept. of Plant Pathology, NC State University
    • Louise Lewis
      • 1989 - 1992
      • current position: assoc. prof., Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Connecticut
    • Wieland Meyer
      • 1989 - 1992
      • current position: Senior Research Scientist, Univ. Sydney, Australia
    • Steven L. Rehner
      • 1988 - 1989
      • current position: Research Scientist., USDA, Beltsville, MD
    • Marianela Rodriguez
      • 20102012 - present

  • PhD Students

    • Gwendolyn Williams
      • 2007-present
      • Fungal succession during transition from old field to forest
    • Jeri L. Parrent
      • 2006
      • Status: Graduated
      • Ph.D. in 2006: Effects of CO2 enrichment on fungal communities
      • Thesis: Effects of CO2 enrichment on fungal communities
    • Daniel Henk
      • 2000-2005
      • Ph.D recieved 2005, coevolution of fungi and insects
    • Greg Bonito
      • 2003-2008
      • Systematics of Truffles (Tuber). Greg is currently the senior postdoc for our DOE project on Populus mycorrhizae.
    • Jason A Jackson
      • 2005-2010
      • molecular ecology of soil fungi. Jason is now a Research Scientist for the Forest Service.
    • Hannah Reynolds
      • 2005-current
      • Biogeogrpahy and systematics of false truffles in the genus Elaphomyces. Hannah recently graduated and has moved to her new postdoc position where she will be studying the fungal agent of white nose syndrome in bats!
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